Shark bites North Carolina pensioner in seventh attack within three weeks

A shark has bitten a 68-year-old man several times off North Carolina, officials said, the seventh attack in the US state's coastal waters in less than three weeks.

The man suffered wounds to his ribcage, lower leg, hip and hands as he tried to fight off the animal at a beach on Ocracoke Island, said Justin Gibbs, a local emergency official.